Joseph Hayon, a Republican activist in southeastern Brooklyn’s Jewish community who did surprisingly well against Assemblyman Steve Cymbrowitz in 2010, will forgo a rematch and instead run against Assemblywoman Helene Weinstein. Indeed, Mr. Hayon, who also doubles as the head of the Brooklyn Tea Party club, told us that he was “99%” likely to run.
Mr. Hayon is known in Brooklyn political circles as a particularly passionate opponent of the gay marriage legislation signed last year, and he hinted that Mr. Cymbrowitz’s vote against the bill — and Ms. Weinstein’s support of it — factored into his decision-making, in addition to redistricting changing the shape of the map.
“Weinstein’s vote to redefine marriage will play a major role in this campaign,” he explained in an email. “Voters do not forget easily, and they are still angry at the marriage vote.”
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It is extremely disappointing to see a Jewish person hate-mongering against gays in an attempt to gain political power (and then to use that political power, if gained, to bash a social minority politically). Gay victims of the Holocaust were demonized every bit as unjustly as were Jewish victims. And, the two categories of minority were not mutually exclusive. Concentration camp prisoners who were both Jewish and homosexual had to wear two distinct branding arm bands -- a yellow Star of David and a pink triangle. I would remind Joseph Hayon that non-homosexual and homosexual concentration camp prisoners alike got dehumanizing numbered tattoos burned into their flesh. The gay concentration camp prisoners were singled out for especially bad treatment; sometimes to escape the torture, the flung themselves at the electrified perimeter fences of the concentration camps. Today throughout the U.S., there are public school districts where the anti-gay torments students suffer are so persistently severe that some students kill themselves to escape unbearable suffering inflicted on them by bigots. Additionally, we recently have heard from around the country, pastors saying that homosexuals should be put in concentration camps, and/or that the government should kill them. Shame on Joseph Hayon.
Way to go Joseph. Here is hoping you win the general election in this fight. We welcome the Jewish community in the fight to save marriage from the relentless homosexual attack.
The concept and original definition of marriage all started in ancient Israel. The unique union of one man and one woman goes all the way back to times of Joseph, Noah, David, and Moses. Indeed it is in Genesis we learn of the ancient cities of Sodom and Gommorah. Their the God Jehovah destroyed the ancient cities for their rampant homosexuality and sodomy.
Modern day Jews of today understand that you cannot have marriage corrupters representing your district.
Jewish people should always be skeptical of non-Jews enlisting them for anti-minority campaigns. NOM's founder Robert George, for example, didn't at all hesitate to send NOM's Thomas Peters to a conference held by the notorious Polish anti-Semite Tadeusz Rydsyk.
Looks like the opposition is starting to get reeeeaaalllll nervous about the signs of rejection of SS"M" among important Democratic con stituencies.
They should.
This will be a major factor on the margins in the election, and it will not go the way Barack Obama's SS"M" donors hope.
@Scott
Acutally that's false.
It is a well known fact that Hitler had soldiers who were homosexual within his own ranks.
The homosexuals in the concentration camps that were separated with a pink triangle, were sexual predators who targeted small children, preferably little boys.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0eHDo3mIkc&feature=related&skipcontrinter=1
Scott Rose:
Your comments are well-intentioned but, ultimately, they are mistaken. The fact that Jews and homosexuals both suffered in concentration camps is totally irrelevant to the public policy question of the definition of marriage. Communists also suffered mercilessly in concentration camps but we would not logically argue that conservatives have no right to oppose America going down the road of socialism or communism due to the common suffering. We are discussing ideologies and institutions here. Insisting that the government-recognized (but not government-created!) institution of marriage be limited to the union of a husband and wife is not a form of "hate-mongering against gays," as you write. Neither is supporting capitalism and arguing that communism would be bad public policy be a form of hate-mongering against those people who do subscribe to communist beliefs.
And as for your charge about Jews needing to be "skeptical" of non-Jews who support morality (I am rephrasing your formulation of this), again you are mistaken. Secular liberal Jews in America have done the Jewish community great, and probably irreparable, damage in allying with the ACLU and other militantly secular organizations to suppress all public expressions of Christianity or even the Bible. This causes even fair-minded Christians to ask: why are these Jews so intent on uprooting the Christian heritage that a vast majority of Americans adhere to? Do Jews hate Christianity--is that why? Well: NO! Jews do not hate Christianity, we are happy that Christians draw inspiration from the same wellspring that we do: the Bible. As for militantly secular Jews: sadly, they suffer from serious forms of psychological disorders (too complicated to discuss here) that make them feel threatened when Christians celebrate their religious heritage.
The ACLU and NOM have clients in common and have represented some of the same clients at the same time, Jerry Buell the Florida public school teacher being one example. And you need not look to "militantly secular Jews" to find supporters of LGBT equality. Conservative Jews in America support equality, and so do some Modern Orthodox, to say nothing of the largest group of American Jews, Reformed Jews, who are not "secular;" they go to temple and read from the Torah, and everything. You ignorant gay-bashing bigots will grasp and any straw around.
Got that, everyone?
Pro marriage corruption Jew= good.
Pro-marriage Jew= "ignorant gay-bashing bigot".
It is time to simply roll over these fascists politically.
No need for a lot of dialogue at this point.
Just win.
Scott, orthodox Jew is a fake NOM poster, much like their fake ex-gays, the fake anti-gay atheist and the fake anti-gay democrat. Several posters here triple up on their identities. We suspect Good News is actually Rick Delano.
Marriage corruption supporters were able to get as far as they have, in large part, by employing bullying peer pressure tactics against a trusting and unsuspecting public. These miscreants have nowhere else to go; they are doubling down on the lies, falsehoods, and intimidation their agenda is built on.
Don't spend too much time waiting for these curs to see the errors of their ways; these are not exactly up-standing citizens you are dealing with here.
"We suspect Good News is actually Rick Delano."
We?
So... folks that are commonly paid to astroturf and moby are accusing others of being dishonest.
IMO, the current crop of ssm activist on this blog do not contribute anything but venom.
Pete.
Pete.
Pete.
If you're going to suggest something stupid, at least try to make it plausible on *some* level.
Can you imagine the guffaws lurking in the closely-held "intelligence files" of Pete and his hilarious "We"?
LOL!
Hahaha! The paranoia of SSMers!
Don't feel bad Orthodox Jew, Good News and Rick D. I was reading some comments on the "Good As You" (a pro-gay) blog a few months ago, and one of the commenters said that he believes Overcame (formerly Resist), Barb, and myself, are the same person, lol.
I thought that was hilarious; as I'm sure you find the conspiracy theories of who you really are, equally hilarious.
SSMers can't accept that there are so many brilliant marriage supporters congregated in one place.
Than you, Rick DeLano (comment # 8) for clarifying that I am, in fact, not an "ignorant gay-bashing bigot." Until you wrote that, I wasn't sure
And Pete (comment # 9), I got news for you: I am not a "fake NOM poster" or a fake anything! I am a real person, who adheres to traditional (Orthodox) Judaism which regards the Torah (Hebrew Bible) as a Divine document, not a human one. I therefore decided to use this screen name on the NOM blog to try and minimize the great "profanation of God's name" (chillul Hashem) that is created when religiously liberal Jews (presumable Scott Rose is one such but I could be wrong) argue in favor of "marriage equality" when, in fact, the Torah is quite clear on the status of homosexual unions. I do not want Christians thinking that Jews or Judaism favors gender-neutral "marriage," God forbid.
The "Conservative" Jews (not to mention the "Reform" ones) do not believe that any Commandments are eternal or Divine in any way. They go with whatever the trends of any given epoch happen to be. In the nineteenth-century, they abolished the dietary laws and Sabbath observance and today they call sodomy, deemed by the Torah to be an "abomination" to be "marriage"!!!
We are not bigots. We train our children in tolerance. Tolerance for all human beings of all races and different ways of worshiping God. They are all precious and created in God's image. We do not, however, train them to be "tolerant" of behavior that the Torah abhors!
The first line of my above post was supposed to read, "...Rick DeLano, comment # 8)..."
OrthodoxJew:
Thanks kindly and believe me, glad to have you aboard